Proxmox Backup and Disaster Recovery Guide

Most backup strategies look fine in a diagram. There is production, there is backup storage, there is some kind of retention policy, and there is a comforting sentence about disaster recovery. Then a host fails, a datastore corrupts, or ransomware lands on the management network, and you discover the truth: you did not have a recovery strategy, you had a hope strategy. I like Proxmox because it makes the mechanics of backup straightforward. The dangerous bit is that this can create false confidence. Clicking "Add backup job" is easy. Building a recovery setup that survives hardware failure, operator error and a bad week is not. This guide is the practical version of what I look for when setting up Proxmox backups for a small IT team or a serious home lab. If you need the leadership view first, read my guide to an IT disaster recovery plan that actually works. If you are thinking specifically about active attack scenarios, pair this with the ransomware response playbook. This post is ab